Shaking the Small Stuff

Shaker Heights Public Library, Ohio, USA
Home: http://www.shakerlibrary.org/
Catalogue: http://search.clevnet.org/web2/tramp2.exe/log_in/guest?SETTING_KEY=SH

The Shaker Heights Public Library does not use LibraryThing for Libraries. the do not have their own OPAC, but rather are part of the CLEVNET consortium catalogue, headed by the Cleveland Public Library. But the Shaker Heights Public Library is using LibraryThing to create alternate catalogues for special collections.

Local History

They have a LibraryThing catalogue for their Shaker Authors & Local History Catalog (lt user: MorelandRoom) On the collection web page, they encourage you to look at the LibraryThing catalogue and especially the tags cloud.

According to their site, these books are all catalogued in the CLEVNET consortium catalogue. But it would be difficult to separate a non-circulating special collection in a standard library OPAC, so LibraryThing is a way to highlight that collection without significant expense.

SCORE Business books

In a post on BlogJunction, Ed Rossman from Shaker Heights Public Library also talks about using LibraryThing to create a catalogue for business books they use with Service Corps of Retired Executives (SCORE). The LibraryThing catalogue for this small collection (lt user: shpl_biz) has tags indicating subject, and location of the books. Again, this is an example of how LibraryThing can be used to highlight a specific set of books in a way that is difficult in an OPAC.